Universal Subgoaling And Chunking: The Automatic Generation And Learning Of Goal Hierarchies (the Springer International Series In Engineering And Computer Science)

Rarely do research paths diverge and converge as neatly and productively as the paths exemplified by the two efforts contained in this book. The story behind these researches is worth recounting. The story, as far as I'm concerned, starts back in the Fall of1976, when John Laird and Paul Rosenbloom, as new graduate students in computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University, joined the Instructible Production System (IPS) project (Rychener, Forgy, Langley, McDermott, Newell, Ramakrishna, 1977; Rychener & Newell, 1978). In those days, production systems were either small or special or both (Newell, 1973; Shortliffe, 1976). Mike Rychener had just completed his thesis (Rychener, 1976), showing how production systems could effectively and perspicuously program the full array of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by creating versions of Studellt (done in an earlier study, Rychener 1975), EPAM, GPS, King-Pawn-King endgames, a toy-blocks problem solver, and a natural-language input system that connected to the blocks-world system. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-16 The Soar Architecture....Pages 17-55 Empirical Demonstration....Pages 57-81 Discussion....Pages 83-92 Conclusion....Pages 93-94 Back Matter....Pages 95-131 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Introduction....Pages 135-138 Practice....Pages 139-148 Stimulus-Response Compatibility....Pages 149-174 Goal-Structured Models....Pages 175-199 The XAPS3 Architecture....Pages 201-223 Simulation Results....Pages 225-251 Discussion....Pages 253-272 Conclusion....Pages 273-274 Back Matter....Pages 275-282 Front Matter....Pages 283-283 Introduction....Pages 285-286 Soar—A General Problem-Solving Architecture....Pages 286-288 Chunking in Soar....Pages 288-290 Demonstration....Pages 290-296 Conclusion....Pages 296-297 Back Matter....Pages 297-299 Back Matter....Pages 301-313